The Grandest Bookshop in the World -Mellor, Amelia

Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne isthe grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights forthe siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father.When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysteriousObscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakesefeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if theyfail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.

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